Welcome aboard. I "picked" Chelsea as my team at the beginning of the 2006-2007 season but I didn't really start following them until the 2010-2011 season as well.

I'm in a similar situation. I chose Chelsea as my team when I picked up FIFA 09 for cheap used, but didn't really start following them until 2011-12, but then my level of interest really jumped last year.

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Originally Posted by A Perfect Score

If a girl is sucking me off, and I look down and shes beating off a **** of her own, I am absolutely going to tell her to stop. 100% of the time. Explain that ****.

I know I'm super late on the Suarez-Bale debate but in the second half of the season Suarez played on the wing as much and sometimes more than Bale did. As the arrival of Sturridge pushed Luis to the flank, so Bale got pushed into more and more central positions as Defoe's early season hot streak faded, to the point where Bale was playing mostly as a second striker and at teams even the false nine.

Bale was still phenomenal and that's why AVB made that tactical change, but it does negate a lot of the positional argument cause in my eyes both had comparable seasons on the pitch and are comparable talents, Bale's faster and scores more long range goals, but Luis can weave magic through traffic in the box in a way Bale can't. It's kinda like Gotze v Reus purely on the pitch. If we ignore the suspension issues with Suarez there's not much separating the two as both are coming off of their biggest years to date with good, but ultimately a tier lower play in the previous years in the EPL.

Plus if it didn't get him suspended I'd actually rather have Suarez than Bale, I love that crazy do anything drive, it's very similar to what made Mandzukic such a force for Bayern last season, and if a club like Dortmund who fly at the opposition could pick him up, he'd be absolutely amazing to watch as he wrecks havoc at the top of their pressing scheme with Reus-Mkh-Kuba/Auba flying up behind him.

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JPP is a better and more productive player than Brandon Graham

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Originally Posted by abaddon41_80

Is Shaun Hill a top 10 QB? Definitely not. Is he a top 20 one? Almost certainly.

I "adopted" AC Milan since Ea Sports Fifa 99. But I'd be lying to you if I said I know anything about the team or that I follow them nowadays.

Donadoni was my favorite player back then and my team in Fifa 99 was AC Milan. Loved that game.

Weah <3. #Neverforget

It's time for you to move on BBD, Berlusconi's killed the team, they have like 4 good players and a bunch of journeymen, solid but not good enough to be starting for a team with real aspirations guys, old and washed up players and a couple promising prospects who are still just kids and not ready to cover the holes around them.

You should jump on the BuLi bandwagon early cause once their US tv deal is up in two years, the BuLi will explode. You've got your classic evil big team who've always been contenders with Bayern, you've got your primary title rivals on all fronts with a history as a big team who are coming out of a massive financial fuckup that almost killed the club but now boast probably the most exciting young team in the world managed by the coolest coach ever who've won 2 of the last 3 titles in Dortmund, after them you've got a couple other big teams who've actually not been being run badly for a while now and so are putting together really good squads with Schalke and Leverkusen, and then you've got a ton of teams that are either smaller but well run like Freiburg, Frankfurt, Hannover, etc., or still in the early phases of cleaning up messes left by prior regimes as they make their way back to being big clubs, Gladbach, Wolfsburg, Stuttgart, and every year you have at least a couple teams who come out of no where to play good exciting football that puts them in the european places.

Once the BuLi gets their **** together on foreign tv deals and starts marketing in places other than Asia, ****'s gunna get real to go with the strong financial state and great emphasis on youth development throughout the divisions in german football.

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JPP is a better and more productive player than Brandon Graham

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Is Shaun Hill a top 10 QB? Definitely not. Is he a top 20 one? Almost certainly.

I understand why people think that, but bleh, I dont care who people cheer for, even if I hate the team. Especially if they dont get all the soccer specific channels and such, and the only teams they ever see on TV are the big ones. It's only natural to root for the sides that you can actually watch, and over here those are the ones that you get killed for supporting.

I've been a fan of Chelsea since one of the FIFA games. I'm not sure which one it was but I downloaded the demo and it had them and I played with Drogba and I've been a supporter of them since. I sort of drifted in and out but the past couple years I have been getting really into it.

Other than Man U, the only team I'm not that big of a fan of is Man City.